The Innovator’s Trusts (InT) Theory

The Innovator’s Journey is moderated by “Trusts". Each innovator endures personal risk in sharing the results from the ideation and opportunity recognition. They seek development and support of those ideas from three authenticated types of trusts. Direct trust is observational. Indirect trust is reputational. Hybrid trust is distributive. Innovators entrust intermediaries to facilitate and advance the development process. Intermediaries who can facilitate the transfer of knowledge and/or emit knowledge spillover accelerate the Innovator’s Journey.